If you've always wished you could draw, but have no idea where to start, this guide is the place--offering progressive art activities that develop skill and confidence.

Start Here: Draw gives you exciting prompts for kickstarting an artistic practice centered on drawing. By exploring how simple motifs, such as lines or circles, can be repeated to draw more intricate images and patterns, Start Here: Draw builds up your understanding of shape, color, and technique without the usual intimidating jargon or theory.

• Start Here. Daily mark-making ideas, from the simplest single line to turning curves, dots, and scribbles into cute motifs designed to be drawn in 30 minutes to an hour.
• Get a Sketchbook. Guidance on how you can get the most out of your sketchbook and inspiration to help you keep it up.
• Practice Makes Perfect. Using these prompts as an inspiring starting point, have fun experimenting with different techniques and developing your own style.
• Make It Your Own. From patternmaking with stylized motifs to more realistic sketches, this section helps you develop your own creative approach by interpreting the prompts in your own way or by copying them using a different medium.
• Stuff. Here are a few essential pieces of equipment you'll need, or what you could add to your kit. Includes plenty of ideas of what to do with your finished work, from making T-shirts and mugs to curating your own pin it library of pieces you're proud of.

With Start Here: Draw as your bright and beautiful creative companion, you'll learn how to draw and never want to stop.

Start Here: Draw is a companion title to Start Here: Paint, which guides you through the basics of painting, including color mixing, value, and shadow, and using ink, watercolor, and acrylic.

The ultimate guide to learning how to capture action and dynamic movement in figure drawings. A vital step in developing drawing skills, gesture drawing helps aspiring artists get more comfortable with studying the human body and learning how to depict its connections, curves, and movements. Noted drawing instructor and best-selling author Michael Hampton shares all the secrets for developing gesture and figure drawing skills.

Geared towards the novice and experienced artist alike, this book aims to clarify and explain the ambiguous concept of gesture drawing. Pulling from formal principles of line, rhythm, shape, and perspective, Gesture Drawing slows down the often rapidly executed practice of gesture and clarifies each step. Featuring examples and a wide range of exercises, this book will help anyone become a stronger and more confident artist.

A bold new edition of the groundbreaking book by two of America's most prominent visual artists, James Gurney (Dinotopia, Color and Light), and Thomas Kinkade, freshly updated with a new introduction, archival photographs, and illuminating text to guide a new generation of illustrators.

If I could only have one drawing book on my shelf, it would be this one. -Shari Blaukopf, author of the Urban Sketching Handbook: Working With Color

Since its release in 1982, The Artist's Guide to Sketching has become a classic art guide for students and laypeople around the world. The book includes instruction and artwork by James Gurney and Thomas Kinkade--two students who would go on to fame with Dinotopia (Gurney) and as the Painter of Light (Kinkade). This new edition restores the classic text with updated full-color visuals and a special section chronicling the book's origins and the friendship, drawing on archives from Gurney and the Kinkade family estate.

Chapters and topics include:

• Chapter 1: THE EXPERIENCE OF SKETCHING (Coping with the Weather, Sketching at Night, Sitting or Standing?, Dealing with Curious Spectators, Being Inconspicuous, At Home Amid the Elements
• Chapter 2: MATERIALS (Sketchbooks, Pencils, Pens, Markers, Wash and Drybrush, Sketchboxes and Carrying Cases, Experiencing Your Materials)
• Chapter 3: ACHIEVING ACCURACY: (When to Use an Underdrawing, How Much Underdrawing is Necessary, Establishing the Large Shapes, Measuring Lengths, Measuring Slopes, Using Perspective Guidelines, Constructing with Geometric Forms, Completed Underdrawing, The Final Execution)
• Chapter 4: CAPTURING MOTION (Freezing Motion: A New Way of Drawing, Learning to Observe Motion, Training Your Memory, Getting It Down Fast, The Scribble Approach, The Gestural Approach, The Mannikin Approach, The Tonal Mass Approach, When Your Subject Moves Unexpectedly, Places to Go for Motion Sketching)
• Chapter 5: CREATING MOOD (Choosing a Subject, Noting Impressions, Composing with Thumbnails, Selectivity, Center of Interest, Dramatic Opposition, Delicacy, Mystery, Structure and Expression)
• Chapter 6: USING IMAGINATION (Dare to be Creative, Being Imaginative On-the-Spot, Exaggeration, Changing Context and Scale, Using Anthropomorphism, Additions and Combinations, Feeding the Imagination, Becoming More Imaginative)
• Chapter 7: STUDYING NATURE (Nature: Your Personal Drawing Workshop, The Experience of Nature Sketching, Plants, Animals, Sketching at the Zoo, Natural History Museum, Clouds, Rocks and Landforms, The Benefits of Studying Nature)
• Chapter 8: SKETCHING PEOPLE (Finding Raw Material, Exaggerating Character Traits, The Cartoon Approach, Portraying People in Their Environment, Two Characters, Group Composition, The On-The-Spot Portrait, Making People Sketches Come Alive, Family and Friends: Your Free Models)
• Chapter 9: EXPLORING THE MAN-MADE WORLD (Begin with the Commonplace, Sketching the Home, Indicating Building Exteriors, Signs and Letterforms, A New Look at Machines, Using Clutter, On-The-Spot Spot Research, Using Written Notes, Thinking As a Documentary Artist, The Joy of Exploration)
• Chapter 10: SKETCHING IN YOUR LIFE (Keeping Specialized Sketchbooks, Developing Sketches into Paintings, Sharing Sketches With Others, Sketching Alone or With Others)

You're about to discover to how to do pencil drawing. Millions of people use art as a way to express their emotions as a therapeutic way to manage their stress. This book will reveal the proven steps to create your own magnificent pencil drawing with simple easy to learn techniques. The truth is, if you would like to use art and drawing as a way to channel your creativity but don't know where to start, this is the book you would not want to miss out from!

Here is a preview of what you'll learn...

• Drawing tools you'll need
• Photo references
• Framing
• Gridding
• Ways by which you handle the pencil
• Drawing fundamentals
• How to handle colored pencils for drawing
• Common mistakes made when drawing
• Step by step drawing guide

The book is excellent for the people of all ages, and you will be an expert in this field without facing any problem. The easy and simple tutorials, as well as exercises, are available to practice again and again. You can practice everything to learn basic techniques. The book will help you to draw animals, birds, human face, natural landscape and lots of other images. If you don't know how to draw, the drawing for beginners: learn the basics of pencil drawing in no time will help you.

Unbelievably cute and easy-to-follow kawaii drawing, broken down into step-by-step exercises that anyone can master.

A completely immediate and straight-ahead guide to drawing Japanese people and places in an appealing kawaii style. Kawaii means cute in Japanese, and often refers to a delightful range of drawing styles that Western audiences have come to love.

Annelore Parot, an experienced illustrator and art teacher, has her own distinctive kawaii style based on cute objects, inviting places, and expressive people. Her fans have long demanded a guide to drawing Japan and Japanese things, so she put together the work-throughs in Kawaii!: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Cute Japanese Drawing. Each spread shows, in six or seven steps, how to build up a cute picture with just a few strokes of the pencil: and on the right page of the spread, there's space for you to practice them yourself. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to create lively people, expressive faces, and evocative scenes.

Parot traveled around Japan to choose the best subjects, and invites the reader to join her in experimenting with buildings, movements, and memorable aspects of Japanese culture. Myths, animals, and food are all included.

How to Draw: 53 Step-by-Step Drawing Projects is perfect for beginners who want to quickly gain a sense of mastery in their drawing. Suitable for children, teens, and adults who want to practice and improve their drawing skills.

Contains easy-to-follow drawing tutorials that will teach you how to draw everything from basic shapes such as cubes and spheres, to animals, common objects, vehicles, and even people. Each step-by-step tutorial will guide you from the first step to the finished drawing.

Each diagram on the left shows you how to draw the object one step at a time. Simply follow along drawing in the space provided on the right-hand side. Add each detail as shown until the picture is finished.

Learn to Draw People with Simple Step-by-Step Instructions!

How to Draw People: Step-by-Step Face and Figure Drawing Projects is perfect for beginners who want to quickly gain a sense of mastery in their drawing. Suitable for children, teens, and adults who want to practice and improve their drawing skills.

Contains more than 75 easy-to-follow drawing tutorials that will teach you how to draw many types of faces and figures in a variety of poses including sitting, standing, walking, dancing, and lying down. Each step-by-step tutorial will guide you from the first step to the finished drawing. Each diagram on the left shows you how to draw the object one step at a time. Simply follow along drawing in the space provided on the right-hand side. Add each detail as shown until the picture is finished.

Perfect for budding artists of any age who want to increase skill and learn to draw quickly.

Makes a great gift!

This book is for anybody who wants to become confident in drawing faces whether you are a complete novice or a more experienced artist. From basic facial structures to finer details, the book teaches you the fundamentals of portraiture, and also allows you space to practise on the page. Learn how to:

- Understand anatomy and form
- Use light and shade
- Sketch in profile and front on
- Draw details such as hair and wrinkles
- Capture likeness and expression

The book lays flat to allow you to draw comfortably and has an elastic band to keep your drawings safe. It is also small and compact enough to fit inside your bag and each exercise has an estimated competition time, so it doesn't matter where you are, you'll always be able to find time and inspiration to practice.

Whether your character is jumping for joy or grappling with an opponent, this book provides all the essential techniques to draw more lifelike action figures in the classic Japanese manga style.

The comprehensive introduction first shows the reader the physical anatomy of male vs. female figures and gives important tips on proportions, perspective and small but often-overlooked details such as the relative differences between male and female hands, fingers and feet.

Five subsequent chapters cover over 40 action poses in the following categories:

• Chapter 1: Action (e.g. running and jumping)
• Chapter 2: Martial Arts (e.g. punching and kicking)
• Chapter 3: Interacting (e.g. judo holds and high fives)
• Chapter 4: Weapons (e.g. swords and knives)
• Chapter 5: Reacting (e.g. dodging a punch or taking a punch)

Each pose and movement is illustrated with a rough sketch outline followed by a highlighted manga drawing containing detailed annotations by the author. After studying the sketches, you practice the drawing techniques in a tracing section at the end of each chapter. Each chapter also provides professional tips on the use of color and shading for greater realism.

Special sections contain information and tips on particular topics of interest, such as how to draw clothes, hair and facial expressions or how to create special effects. At the end of the book, an actual 6-page comic strip gives readers the opportunity to practice what they have learned by filling in the missing elements.

LET'S DRAW CARTOONS In easy-to-follow, step-by-step detail, How to Draw Cartoons teaches you all the tricks and techniques you'll need to create your own amazing cartoons in a few minutes. You'll discover how to draw all types of characters using nothing but a pencil. How to Draw Cartoons shows how to bring life to pets (like chicken, parrot etc) as well as some popular cartoon characters such as Tom & Jerry, Samurai, Angry Birds etc. It also contains special section titled Can you color me with your pencil? so that you can learn how to put color on illustrations. Learn to draw: - Cheerful Chicken - Flying parrot - Smart wood-pecker - Floating ship And many more

The ultimate complete drawing course to help you take your sketches to a higher level.

Packed with inspiring workshops and advice from practicing artists, this art lesson book will help you sharpen your drawing skills in a range of media.

Here's what you'll find inside the pages of this artist's guide to drawing:

- Includes more than 90 detailed step-by-step workshops for pencil, charcoal, pen and pastel techniques
- A comprehensive range of techniques makes it suitable for beginners or more experienced artists
- Techniques are approached with progression in mind, so readers can learn the basics then move on to new creative challenges

Every aspect of drawing is explained in incredible detail in this drawing reference guide. It starts with the basics of drawing -- like learning how to draw and choosing a subject -- and works all the way through to mounting your finished masterpiece.

Learn more than 80 drawing techniques, from cross-hatching and stippling to blending and using colored pencils. Develop your own artistic style and grow as an artist by following the step-by-step drawing tutorials through beginner, intermediate and advanced art projects.

Artist's Drawing Techniques will help you tap into your creative potential and unlock new talents, whether you're a complete beginner or seasoned artist.

How to draw in a nutshell - by popular pencil artist Jasmina Susak. This book is about drawing for beginners, and it is helpful to those interested in developing basic knowledge and skills. It is concise, clear, very easy to understand, and well-written in a friendly way filled with encouragement and complemented with a lot of illustrations. This book features verbal and visual explanations which make the learning much easier and with better results. The author contends that drawing and shading are skills that anyone can develop through patience, and a lot of time spent practicing your drawing even with little to no special talent for it. Why should you choose this book over the hundred others of the same topic?

• Because the author will teach you to draw realistic, lifelike drawings, and to give life to your drawings, instead of making flat, lifeless drawings.
• Because the author is a self-taught artist who can tell you about her own experience and what she has gone through--instead of repeating the curriculum that she would have learned in school, if she had attended any art school.
• Because the author won't tell you Add some shading that you can read in plenty of how-to-draw books by other authors, but she will explain to you in detail how to do it and how she does it with no further questions.
• Because through this book, you won't just learn how to draw a cube or cylinder that no one needs, but the things that you will want to draw for yourself or for the people around you: animals, human faces, every day objects, 3D drawings and more.
• Because the author will explain to you what she has realized through her years spent on drawing, so that you don't have to think about how to do something, but immediately to start doing it; saving you time on studying and searching for the answers on the Internet.
• Because the author will encourage you to keep on drawing and inspire you, so that you will never want to stop doing it.

In this book you will find a lot of tips and tricks to kick-start your artwork and help you to achieve stunning results. Enjoy learning! www.jasminasusak.com

With Drawing: Landscapes, learn to render a variety of beautiful landscape subjects in graphite pencil.

William F. Powell invites you into his artistic world to explore a number of basic drawing techniques and shows how to develop a drawing to its fullest through a series of step-by-step demonstrations. In this 10.25 × 13.75-inch book, Powell explains a number of drawing techniques and special effects and gives tips on how to design a well-balanced composition.

Landscapes provides you with the necessary knowledge to create your own landscape drawings from preliminary sketch to the completed work. Discover different methods of shading, ways of manipulating drawing tools to produce specific textures, and a wealth of beautiful landscapes to both copy and admire, includes scenes from American national parks.

Also included are simple techniques for developing common landscape elements--such as trees, clouds, rocks, and water--and how to apply a variety of methods to convey a sense of realism. Then, with a little practice, you will be able to apply your newfound skills and draw your own beautiful landscape masterpieces!

Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers easy-to-follow guides that introduce artists to basic tools and materials and include simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Drawing: Landscapes allows artists to develop drawing skills by demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed landscape drawing.

Make Your Drawings Come to Life Using Kautzky's Technique

Ted Kautzky, a prominent American artist throughout the twentieth century, dedicated much of his life to conveying his artistic techniques to students. This book-combining his acclaimed works Pencil Pictures and Pencil Broadsides, plus additional material-contains the essence of his teachings on the art of pencil drawing. Through the use of numerous sequential sketches, diagrams, and finished drawings, accompanied by full explanatory text, it covers the methods and approaches that made Kautzky a unique artist and teacher.

Part I focuses on creating pictures of subject matter found in nature, from seascapes to landscapes, with specific lessons on drawing various kinds of trees, brickwork, shrubbery, flowers, and roofs, along with pointers on composition.

Part II offers instruction on planning a drawing, using contrast, and arranging elements in a variety of visual environments, such as villages, forests, mountains, winter landscapes, and fishing ports.

Part III presents over thirty of Kautzky's beautifully executed broad-stroke drawings of a wide range of subjects, some of which were commissioned works, ranging from New York City parks and avenues to seashore scenery to New England and European village scenes.

The Ted Kautzky Pencil Book serves as a comprehensive resource for creating dynamic, captivating pencil drawings. Though originally published several decades ago, the techniques and illustrations included in this work continue to provide an invaluable reference for artists of any skill level. Artists referring to it over the years will be inspired again and again to pick up a pencil and breathe life into their artistic vision.

This book is also available from Echo Point Books as a hardcover (ISBN 1648373364).

This book brings to life Siamese, Persians, lions, tigers, panthers and such celebrity felines as Felix, Top Cat and Snaggle Puss.

Create mind-blowing artwork that pops off the page!

Drawing complex three-dimensional art does not have to be intimidating. It may seem difficult or only for the advanced artist, but in this book author Tom McPherson breaks down in simple step-by-step instructions how anyone can create detailed, mesmerizing optical illusions even with little drawing experience.

McPherson details how to create cool artwork from scratch by learning basic drawing techniques and progressing to more complex skills and creations, including:

Impossible Shapes: Optical 3D illusions of shapes that could not exist in reality

Floating Shapes: Solid shapes that look like they hover above the paper

3D Line Art: Inventive 3D illusions on simple lined paper

Anamorphic Buildings: Subjects drawn with extreme distortion that look realistic and 3D

And much more! This is the ultimate guide to mastering trick drawing and creating cool images that will impress your friends and family.

Drawing with colored pencils is an artistic technique that combines sketching and color, offering a lighter, more translucent texture. In the long history of Chinese art, birds and flowers have been a common theme in paintings. This book will teach you how to use vibrant colored pencils to depict birds and flowers with auspicious meanings, opening up a unique natural world. Through numerous tutorials comprising pictures and detailed explanations, you will be able to use the simplest drawing tools to create colorful, beautifully composed works of art. You will: - Master the process of drawing 10 types of flowers and 10 types of birds; - Gain a wealth of practical drawing skills through explanations of composition, coloring analysis, and tips on important and difficult points; - Obtain the line drafts of 10 works of art that beginners can easily copy; - Discover the culture of Chinese birds and flowers, and unlock broader creative inspiration; - Experience the beauty of nature through a variety of colors. Opening this book is like stepping into a secret garden, with the scent of flowers and the chirping of birds, allowing you to capture moving moments of pure beauty with pencil strokes.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Getting Started Drawing tools How to grip a pencil properly Warming up Basics Elements of Drawing Lines Shapes Usual Errors Perspectives 2-point perspective Rule of Thirds Start with the basics Define permanent outlines Show/illustrate some texture Rendering Shading Kinds of Shading Hatching Cross-hatching Scumbling Stippling Smudging Casting shadows Lighting Sphere Cone Cube Cylinder Layering Design Fabrics Texture Introduction If you are an artist in search for further knowledge about drawing to enhance your skills then this is not the book for you. This book is for the individuals who want to be an artist but know nothing about drawing yet. I know how it feels when you want to illustrate an idea but you just don't know how to start. And when you finally grabbed the confidence to mark that paper but then it turned out really terrible that you don't want to show it to anyone. This instructional manual is for making that 'two circles' cat of yours into something more pleasing and distinguishable, for enhancing that sheep which looks like a cloud with a face, for turning your stick figures into cartoons, and more. Learn the very basics of drawing easily by following this step-by-step tutorial and realize that drawing is something that is fun to do, and not something that becomes a cause of frustration. Enjoy drawing

Colored Pencil Step by Step, from the acclaimed Walter Foster Artist's Library Series, is filled with information that will help artists of all levels learn all about drawing with colored pencil.

*Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority*

This colorful, comprehensive guidebook explores drawing and layering colors, plus a range of styles and techniques for creating your own works of art in colored pencil. Three renowned colored pencil artists guide you step by step through 11 vibrant lessons, demonstrating a variety of special techniques and tricks along the way.

Whether you're a novice or an accomplished artist who has never experimented with a colored pencil, this book will provide the instruction and inspiration you need to master this versatile medium.

This book shows you how to accurately render human faces and emotions to create complex characters and add compelling immediacy to your work.

The ability to draw realistic and powerful facial expressions is essential for every manga artist. All artists will tell you that human faces are the most important and challenging element of any drawing. How to Create Manga: Drawing Facial Expressions is an essential resource for artists who want to bring their skills to the next level.

Thirteen professional Japanese artists have contributed their expertise to this book, which contains 1,250 drawings, with several detailed tips and comments on every drawing. It includes a comprehensive opening section on all the basic expressions budding manga artists need to master. Sections dedicated to detailed emotions and playing up the intensity and drama of more animated facial expressions follow.

Tuttle's How to Create Manga series guides users through the process of reaching a professional-looking final drawing through actual sketch progressions, practical tips and common missteps to avoid. Other books in the series include How to Create Manga: Drawing the Human Body, How to Create Manga: Drawing Clothing and Accessories and How to Create Manga: Drawing Action Scenes and Characters.